Like this (add some suggestions and additions in the comments however you want):
"Hello"
- Returns results with only the word “hello”"Hello World"
- Returns results with only the phrase “hello world”
case:on
- enable case sensitive search
community:<community
- If .com>instance.com
is not provided, it returns the search results from a community from the current instance. Otherwise, it returns the community from the hosted instance: e.g:community:hello .itjust.works
instance:instance.com
- returns results from a specific instance.- If
instance:instance.com community:community
, then search community from that specified instance.
- If
before:yyyy-mm-dd
- Returns results from before a date.after:yyyy-mm-dd
- Returns results from after a date.
- “-” before a phrase, keyword,
community:community .com
,instance:instance.com
, Excludes them from the results. Phrases like “hello world” should have the dash prefixed like this:-"hello world"
. Examples:- For words and phrases:
cyberpunk -2077
- Returns post/comments with the keyword “cyberpunk” but not “2077”-"hello world"
Removes posts/comments containing “hello world” from the search results
- For communities:
-community:hello
,-community:hello_world@my.lemmy.instance
- For instances:
-instance:my.instance.com
- For words and phrases:
About brackets in community:
, instance:
- Used to select multiple communities and instances (separated with a comma or semicolon), for example
community:{philippines@lemmy.world,memes@lemmy.ml} hello -world
- Returns search results only from communitiesphilippines@lemmy.world
andmemes@lemmy.ml
with the keyword “hello
” and excludeworld
from post/comment results-instance:{instance1.com,instance2.com,instance3.nft} community:{memes@lemmy.ml} hello -world
- Exclude instancesinstance1.com
,instance2.com
,instance3.nft
, show post/comments from communitymemes@lemmy.ml
. Exclude posts/comments containing “world
”.
Here is my example usage:
Say you want to search memes@lemmy.ml
for "hello world"
:
community:memes@lemmy.ml "hello world"
Shows results from memes@lemmy.ml
with only the phrase "hello world"
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Did you receive any feedback on this? I can’t seem to use search properly and can’t find what the syntax is.
Checkout https://www.search-lemmy.com
I’ve been talking with the devs of various 3rd party apps to see about getting it added there. I’ll eventually reach out to the Lemmy devs themselves once they aren’t as busy.